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(No Model.)

E. M. SWEENY.

NAIL.

No. 413,980. Patented Oct. 29, 1889.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDVARD M. SVEENY, OF SOUTH HANOVER, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO E. PHILLIPS & SONS, OF SAME PLACE.

NAILn PECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 113,980, dated October 29, 1889.

Application filed J'uly 15, 1889. Serial No. 317,544. (No model.)

To MZ whom it may concei'n: but larger than, the shank, substantially as Be it knoWn that I, EDWARD M. SWEENY, of described.

South Hanover, county of Plymouth, State of Figure l shows in side elevation a nail em- Massachusett-s, have invented an Improvebodying' this invention; Figi. 2, across-section ment in Nails, of Which the following descripof the head,taken on the dotted line m; and

tion, in connection With the accompanying' Fig1 3, a cross-section of the body or shank,

drawings, is a specification, like letters on the taken on the dotted line x' w'.

draWings representing,` like parts. The nail embodying this invention, as here- As the use of Wire nails for uniting,` heels to in shoWn, is supposed to be made from a Wire ro boots and shoes is becoming quite common, of 'about No. 15 or 16 gage, the body or shank the trade demands that the exposed end of a of the nail showing` the full diaineter of the the nail at the end of the finished or seoured Wire. The Wire is pointed at one end, as at heel present a large head, No. 13 or 14 standa', and to make the cylindrical head a2 the ard-gag'e Wire being` preferably employed for Wire is subjected at intervals to the action of 15 these nails, each nail being sharpened to condies, which upset the Wire and leave the long stitute a point. These Wire nails, of uniform eylindrical heads as represented, its length diameter, are hard to drive, are clumsy, do being` greater than its diameter, as shown. not bend properlyT to clinch, and they fill the The cylindrical head (L2 is upset on the No. heel too much and are objectionable. 15 or 16 gage Wire, so as to leave a head of zo In my efforts to provide a Wire nail Whieh about two gages larger than the body. Will present the proper or desired diameter at The nail herein described, having the small the end of the finished or scoured heel, and body or shank a, may be more easily driven Which may be readily driven and not fill the into the heel, be more readilybent, if desired, heel too full, I have devised a nail having' and yet not take up as much space in the z 5 a cylindrical head-section of the standard heel as nails heretofore commonly employed 7o gage and a cylindrical body of a smaller gage. for this purpose, and, owing` to its length, Will The length of the cyliudrical head-section is stand the requisite amount of scouring` to in excess of the length of heel Which is taken which the finished heel is subjeoted. off or rednced by scouring, so that the heads I claimfi 30 Will appear of a proper and uniform diame- The hcrein-described Wire nail, comprising 5 ter, notwithstanding` the amount of heel-stock the eylindrical body or shank a., pointed at removed from the end of the heel in finishone end, and the cylindrical die-formed head ing the same. In order to make the head of (L2, having a length greater than its diameter, sufcient length and of the same diameter or concentric With the shank, but larger in di- 3 5 presenting' parallel sides, it is formed in a anieter, the sides of the said die-formed head die; but in practice such die-formed heads being parallel With the sides of the body or can be but a little larger in diaineter than the shank of the nail, substantially as described. diameter of the Wire of which the nail is In testimonywhereoflhavesignedmynarne madeflsay about tWo gag'es. The length of to this specification in the presence of tWo sub- 40 the head is `:greater than its diameter, as Will scribing WitnesseS.

be described. 7 r

This invention consists in a Wire nail hav- DXVARD M' Sll EENX' ing a cylindrical body or shank pointed at "Witnesses one end, and a cylindrical die-formed head of MERRILL A. PHILLIPS, 45 greaterlength than diameter, concentrie With, CALVIN T. PHILLIPs, 

